Possible Worlds Games

Did you miss out on @austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis, @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social's Homecoming, or @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social's Cosmic Century Knights campaigns? You can pre-order all three & more at realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... for combined November 2026 delivery!

Do you like The Vorrh by Brian Catling? Do you wish there was more dark, complex, surreal fantasy like The Vorrh by Brian Catling? This is a TTRPG inspired by The Vorrh by Brian Catling. Also, it kicks ass.

11 years ago we launched a podcast, and told ourselves "we'll run it until we get bored." Happy birthday, Party of One.

Exploring the ashcan edition of Realis (@austinwalker.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social) and am struck by its 3 zero-session sentences: 'Our story always ...' 'Our story never ...' and 'Our story will but only with distance and care include ...' Intriguing edition to the safety tool kit!

The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is going strong on kickstarter! Back it now so you can get a box that will let you make an Agatha Christie novel at your own table! #ttrpg #boardgames www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

Remnants of the Coast by @manyworldstavern.bsky.social is now up on Heart of Daggers! I really like the caravan rules in this one, and think it would combine well with Journey to Horizon or with @possibleworlds.bsky.social's The Details of Our Escape. heartofdaggers.com/products/rem...

he’s not just spider man… he’s the man who spidered up.

Students are currently playing and living this, come see it tonight!

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

wishing all crowdfunders launching today a very pleasant long walk without refreshing your page

To Feel Your Warmth is LIVE on BackerKit! A tragic duet vampire TTRPG about two people in love, one of which has been cursed with vampirism, in the final hours before sunset. A conversation about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. 🩸🚪🌅

Not only does this game generate textbook locked room murder mysteries without fail (that surprise even the players) it also has a movement mechanic where the detective bounces around the map screensaver-style, and that's just good game design. Support a great game from a local Pittsburgh designer!!

The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is live on Kickstarter now. Make your own murder mysteries with this hybrid board game + ttrpg! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

We made another one :)

Today's new review is for Beak, Feather, & Bone, a map making TTRPG by @possibleworlds.bsky.social! This is a game of collaboration, creation, and competition as you take on the roles of entire factions of ravenfolk. Full review here: https://loom.ly/LgyswxI

I sat down to write a little thread about Penguin Colony. At post 4 I decided I should probably just write something a little longer. www.clockworkworlds.com/digging-at-t...

Today, we're at the Pittsburgh Zine Fair! Swing by between 11:00am and 5:00pm at the Kingsley Association. Stop by and check out some cool books and zines by local artists!

On October 23, I'll be doing a live chat with Adventurer tier and up Patreons about my upcoming review of Beak, Feather, & Bone (game by @possibleworlds.bsky.social)! Join here to be part of the action: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TTRPGkids

hell yeah

Hey, the CMU Press Games series is live. We've been planning this for a couple years, but it's amazing to be at this point. Submit your Anthropocene-themed games about humans + nonhumans + technology in our weird (post)modern/future times, for a new *peer-reviewed* anthology series.

everyone be gentle with the game designers for the next three months. this is the time of 1,000 ordeals

I've been talking with @ludopolitics.bsky.social (Tacklebox) & Ashley Werlinich about this for a while & am SO excited to see it formally announced. This is explicitly an attempt to build a better pipeline for getting more short, weird tabletop games on tables & into print (with university funding)!

‼️INCOMING LICENSE💥 Jyoshikohei by Jiro Matsumoto. Giant high school girl mechs rule the dimensional battlefield, but they drive their middle-aged male pilots insane. Takigawa’s job? Brutally hunt down the ones that go rogue. Coming 2027, 3 new omnibus editions from Peow2

as my schedule has gotten busier and busier over the last year my playdate has become my go-to "i'd like a quick distraction between other tasks" machine and the only problem is there are too many good games on it (with a bunch more on the way)

Kristin is an absolute pro and the snippets I've heard so far have been top tier in both editing and audio quality. Which is saying a lot, because @willjobst.bsky.social & I were constantly derailing things with dumb bits: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

for our midterm we playtested 17 (!!!) new, original, peer-designed TTRPGs in class this week—most by first-time designers—and I genuinely couldn’t be prouder of my students. games are good, y’all.

NEW LINNEA ALERT: peow.studio/shop/product...

JAM IN THE WOODS Starting Oct. 5th, participants can craft their own creations for use in the game & share them widely! Develop new Character Tables for crafting your Kid, create new Hollows, or even write a hack of the system and take it in new directions. itch.io/jam/jam-in-t...

pittsburgh landing @willjobst.bsky.social was such a huge get. a real superstar trade to a slept on city imo.

since @possibleworlds.bsky.social mentioned orochimaru's gay son, whom I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in a while

just finished my final proofreading pass for Realis! it is simply one of the finest books of all time. we're not even talking roleplaying games.

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

Enjoying the current “book about a video game that doesn’t exist” trend? Check out this Capcom-style art book for a nonexistent fighting game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/noa...

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

Save the date: The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is coming to kickstarter on October 20th! Follow along so you don't miss it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamebell/the-locked-room-murder-mystery-game

NOVA 2 is live on Kickstarter! Pilot powerful mechs on a sunless world in this action packed scifi TTRPG. This new edition of NOVA improves on, and adds a ton to the original. Let's get ready to go NOVA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Hard pressed to think who I’d be more excited for new suite of horror games from. Spooky Christmas came early this year: worldchamp.io/store

if you make a good creature design it is my opinion that you should be rewarded and anointed and want for nothing. our celebrities should be the creature designers. you understand something fundamental and reveal it. through creatures

New episode!!! This time I’m chatting with @willjobst.bsky.social about the joy of making stuff, playing games with friends and …One Piece???

making games is cool

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

The print collection of our best stories from Year Two of the site is finally out! It has my best work from last year: Realis and Surrealism, the essay about Impossible Landscapes (my best piece so far, maybe), and the saga of why everyone is mad about Shadowrun.